Biography
Valentina Cervi is an Italian actress. Born in Rome on 13 April 1976, she is the daughter of film director Tonino Cervi and granddaughter of actor Gino Cervi. She began her career at the age of ten in Carlo Cotti's 1986 film Portami la luna.
Cervi has worked in both Italian and English-language productions. Early international roles include Pansy Osmond in Jane Campion's The Portrait of a Lady (1996) and the title character in Artemisia (1997). She played Bertha Mason in Jane Eyre (2011), Salome in the HBO series True Blood (2012), Renata in Miracle at St. Anna (2008) and Alessandra Ricco in Medici: Masters of Florence (2016). Later credits include The Catholic School (2021) and The Invisible Thread (2022).
